Sherin Shaikh

Sherin Shaikh (1972-) was a radical Islamist cleric from India.

Biography
Sherin Shaikh was born in 1972 in Rajkot, Gujarat, India to a family of Sunni Muslim Pashtuns. Shaikh attended religious school in nearby Ahmedabad and became a hafiz, memorizing the whole Quran. Shaikh became an imam at the al-Zakariyya Mosque of Ahmedabad, and he became an associate of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) organization, preaching jihad against the government. Shaikh was responsible for radicalizing the youth, and many of them joined the Indian Mujahideen as a result. He was arrested in 2008 for inciting terrorism.